Title: Removing pseudo-elements from theme
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Removing pseudo-elements from theme

 *  Resolved [tinywolves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinywolves/)
 * (@tinywolves)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-pseudo-elements-from-theme/)
 * I have a blog i am working on here: [http://www.tinywolf.uk](http://www.tinywolf.uk).
 * I am editing the twenty-fifteen theme using a child theme, my aim is to replace
   the header and footer with the ones from the parent site, tinywolf.uk, and hav
   hte blog content in the middle.
 * At the moment i’m having some trouble with pseudo elements appearing in the page.
   in particular there is a white rectangle visible below the header and behind 
   the first post on larger resolutions.
 * how do I get rid of this, as i’m unable to track it down using firebug.
 * Is there a “map” of the theme somewhere so i know what’s in it and how to remove
   elements if necessary?

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 *  Thread Starter [tinywolves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinywolves/)
 * (@tinywolves)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-pseudo-elements-from-theme/#post-5904786)
 * apologies, the blog address is [http://www.tinywolf.uk/blog](http://www.tinywolf.uk/blog)
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-pseudo-elements-from-theme/#post-5904811)
 * It’s not a pseudo-element that is responsible. You need to set the background
   of the body element to transparent, because the background image is part of the
   HTML element. Add this rule to your child theme’s style.css file:
 *     ```
       body {
          background: transparent;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [tinywolves](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinywolves/)
 * (@tinywolves)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-pseudo-elements-from-theme/#post-5904819)
 * Great, that’s really helpful. Thanks. I now just have a few styling issues where
   the parent theme css seems to be ovverriding my header and footer css.

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